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Title and Organization:		Executive Director, Youth Empowerment Synergy
Gender and Age:		Male, 33
Location:		Accra, Greater Accra
Country of Residence:		Ghana
Country of Birth:		Ghana
Nationalities:		African
Citizenships:		Ghana
Languages:		English



Website:		http://www.yesghana.org
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About Me

Emmanuel Edudzie is the founder and Executive Director of the Youth Empowerment Synergy, Ghana’s foremost youth development organisation. He has been working on the issues of youth development from his undergraduate years and has achieved remarkable experience in youth development policy, practice and research. Currently, he leads a team of young professionals working on broad range of youth issues including leadership, active citizenship, employment and entrepreneurship, policy and advocacy.

Over the last decade, Emmanuel has been at the helm of many national and international youth processes, either as a consultant, volunteer, or leader, championing the role of young people in poverty reduction, including membership in the Africa Youth Panel, coordinating the Canadian Education and Training Awards for Africa (CETAA) in Ghana, leading the global Youth Employment Summit (YES Campaign), coordinating the Youth Caucus of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, serving on the Youth Advisory Council of UNEP, and researching and writing papers for UN agencies and government ministries, among others. In 2006 he was honoured by the UN Division of Social Policy and Development for “outstanding efforts in support of the work of the United Nations Programme on Youth at the national level”. Added to his qualities as a young professional, writer and speaker with a remarkable blend of extensive African and international practice, Emmanuel has gained international reputation as a frontline player in contemporary youth development efforts.

Emmanuel holds a Master of Arts in Governance and Sustainable Development from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Cape Coast, a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Ghana, and a Certificate in Youth Leadership from the Cambridge College, Boston.

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